Re: assembler [was: Re: cheers for gogo]

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk wrote:

> > I'll close with a brief(ish) summary: I disaggree that assembler is dead, and
> > I believe there is still a use for it (if there is not, why are students on
> > Electronic Engineering courses taught 8085/Z80 or 68000 assembler? Btw, I
> 
> Software Engineers get taught bugger all assembler at Sheffield Uni as far
> as I can tell, which I believe is a BAD thing.

Not a lot in Comp Sci at Leeds Uni. either.

> ... It is a good way of seeing
> another perspective of your code. Makes you appreciate C++ when you have
> it as well.

I wouldn't go that far. Never seen anything even vaguely make me
appreciate C++ . It's bloatware spawn of the devil :-)

> We only need to know Java(TM) apparently.

So rumour has it.

Jim

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